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Title: Mirror Image by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0-440-22477-2 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (70 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not her best...
Comment: The plot itself made me want to read this book. I found it intriguing how it revolved around a pair of beautiful twins who are identical only in appearance. The fact that Victoria had an affair with a married player causes her father to engage her to Charles. However, Olivia is obviously the one suited to him. She's the one who finds him respectful and whom adores his child. The new engagement is convenience only on both parts of the party. There is no love. Victoria marries to cover the scandal of the affair and Charles needs a mother for his child. Victoria eventually convinces Olivia to switch. She wants to go to the battlefields. Victoria sinks in a ship but later is discovered that she is actually alive. From that point on, both the twins find love. And voila, you got the plot.
And yet, it was just so poorly written at times!(the first half anyway). There were many times where Danielle Steel kept talking about 1)how identical they looked 2)how beautiful they were 3)how Charles felt Victoria was more wild and fiesty. 4)how ppl kept staring at their remarkable beauty. It just started getting corny after a while and I found myself rolling my eyes at times. I get the point after the first 5 times...
I love Danielle Steel's books but this one isn't as good as some of her others. For another book with almost identical plot, I suggest reading 'Deceptions' by Judith Michael.
Rating: 2
Summary: How many volumes did it speak?
Comment: Note to self: The magazine aisle in the supermarket is NOT a good place to buy books. Because that's where I got this one. To be honest, the first half (pre-bad twin flits off to war) wasn't bad (for a DS book). Sure, it was corny as hell and if you hadn't caught on to the fact that the main characters (identical twins - one of whom is the Standard DS character, the other of whom is selfish and spoiled) were wildly beautiful and MIRROR IMAGES of each other, you'd have to be a moron - but it was the typical, brainless fare.
Then it got insulting. Danielle wrote the personalities of the twins to be so far-flunggedly removed from each other to seem ridiculous - and then devoted paragraphs telling the reader which twin was which. Just beat me over the head with a 2x4 a little more, Danielle.
And when you're done, for the sweet love of Jeebus, get yourself a new catchprase! I don't know HOW many times the phrase "...spoke volumes..." was in this book - I guess I lost count. Their beauty spoke volumes, their individuality spoke volumes, their toenail clippings spoke volumes. As I think about it, perhaps this is a subtle little trademark of Danielle's that she uses in all her books...
Rating: 1
Summary: The worst Danielle Steel book!
Comment: I have read most of Danielle steel's early 90's late 80's work, and they,in my opinion,are her best and most prolific novels.
Not even comparing Mirror Image with those beautifully written novels, I would still give this book a 1 star-rating.
Steel portrays the twins as a hackneyed personality split of GOODvsEVIL,in a one-dimensional characterization. The "evil" one is a selfish, spoiled brat with an empathetic scale of a psychopath, while the "good" one is vicariously living through her sister's escapdes and cleaning up her messes because she is too boring and dull to create an interesting life for herself. Meanwhile, a prudish lawyer walks into their lives and falls in love with the boring one while desiring the selfish one and confuses his feelings for the two so often he marries the wrong one who loaths him in bed and out-ridiculous! Predictabley the good sister says and does nothing,like the martyr that she supposedly is and yet she has no problem switching places with her sister(when the evil sister runs away and forces the good one to take her place) and sleeping with her sister's husband-too incestuous for my taste!
In short, skip this novel it was truely ridiculous. I would reccomend Zoya, The Ring, Rememberance, Polomino, To Love again, and many others of her early work.
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Title: The Ghost by Danielle Steel, Danielle Steel ISBN: 0440224853 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 03 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Long Road Home by Danielle Steel ISBN: 0440224837 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 02 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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